Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Breathing Easy After Surgery: My Recovery Journey Explained

6 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A patient-first personal account from a YouTube video describing recovery immediately after chest surgery. The speaker recounts waking from nearly six-hour surgery, noticing improved breathing, and explains that the surgeon (Dr. Fang) scraped scar tissue off the ribs because adhesions from implants had restricted rib expansion. The clip focuses on operative details and the breathing-related benefits experienced post-op.

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Almost six hours.

Dr. Fang.

Scraped scar tissue off the ribs (to free adhesions).

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Directly out of surgery. I remember the first thing when I was coming to was, like, I could breathe. And I do know that Dr. Fang had to scrape my ribs. I think my surgery took almost six hours. She had to scrape a lot of the scar tissue, I guess, off of my ribs. And so. But I still had, like, a really great recovery. And the first thing I noticed was that I could breathe. And she was explaining that when you have these implants and correct me if I'm wrong, that the. The tissue or the scar tissue will adhere sometimes to your ribs, preventing your ribs to, like, expand and contract.